Autograph letter signed from William Dugdale to Guybon Goddard [manuscript], 1657 June 17.
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Autograph letter signed from William Dugdale to Guybon Goddard [manuscript], 1657 June 17.
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Great Britain -- England
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V.b.390
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Sotheby's catalog description: Dugdale, William, Autograph letter signed from William Dugdale to Guybon Goddard. Discussing antiquarian affairs following a trip to Norfolk, including the great church of Walpole St Peter and his belief that "Tis most apparent that the Romanes were in Marshland, for the Tumuli which are extant there" and enclosing "a proofe of the Saxon Dictionary, which I desire you will show to Mr Spelman," 1 page, folio (283 x 188 mm), integral autograph address leaf, "Blyth Hall (in Warwickshire) neere Coleshill," 17 June 1657; red pencil folio numbers in upper right corners, light spotting, neat repairs. Red cloth folding-box and slip-case. Sotheby's catalog note: A fine letter that exemplifies the inquiring spirit of seventeenth-century antiquarianism. Dugdale writes this letter on his return from a visit to the Parliamentarian and lawyer Guybon Goddard (1612-1671) in Kings Lynn. Within the space of a page he expresses his enthusiastic interest in church architecture, heraldry, family portraiture, antiquities, monuments and philology. Acquired at the Robert S. Pirie sale, Sotheby's, New York, 2-4 December 2015, lot 337. Sotheby's catalog provenance: Acquisition: Pickering & Chatto, 1990 Purchase made possible by The Gladys Brooks Acquisitions Endowment Fund. Purchase made possible by The Mary and David S. Wolff Endowment Fund.
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269368